The stories behind Europe’s unmarked migrant graves
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:58.2 | Before we start, I want to let you know that we discuss death and burial in this episode so please take care when you're listening. |
| 1:12.0 | It's a huge touristy area that's one of these typical resort towns that you would find in Lenzorote. |
| 1:20.0 | The photographer picked me up and it was like we had traveled to another world away from the tourist areas away from the beautiful beaches that people know of Lansarote. |
| 1:28.0 | We were in this cemetery and it was incredibly quiet. |
| 1:32.0 | A Shiva Kasam is a correspondent. and it was incredibly quiet. |
| 1:33.0 | Shefa Kasam is a correspondent for The Guardian, who reports on stories across Europe. |
| 1:39.1 | She's been thinking about the people, hundreds of thousands of people every year who try to reach this continent |
| 1:46.9 | in dangerous conditions, in rickety overful boats. And she's been thinking about the people who don't make it. Where are they buried? |
| 1:57.9 | And how will the people who love them learn of that deaths. So we were walking through there. |
| 2:08.0 | It was incredibly windy and you've got gravel crunching under you. |
| 2:12.0 | And there's just this neat kind of lines of |
| 2:15.1 | graves of the 60 about 25 were unmarked and so we just made our way through |
| 2:22.4 | there to try and figure out which one would have been |
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